The general public holds Colorado in high-esteem, if stereotypes gleaned from Google’s auto-complete function are any indication.

And, gosh darn it, we like it that people like us.

On her “no upside” blog, Renee DiResta writes[2] about how she dreamed up the idea of trying to figure out what people “really think about ‘those people’ in other states? What are the most common stereotypes?”

For each state, she said she asked Google: “‘Why is [State] so’ and let it autocomplete. It seemed like an ideal question to get at popular assumptions, since ‘Why is [State] so X?’ presupposes that X is true.”

Type in “Why is Colorado so…” and you get:

“…cold”
“…healthy”
“…awesome”
“…skinny”

Given we need the cold for winter’s white gold, we’d say that all four stereotypes are positives.

Be sure to share that with all your “hot-racist-conservative-crazy” friends in Arizona and your pals in “liberal-broke-anti gun-expensive” California.